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Need access to a HS article

Hei! Im working on Draft:Martti Syrjä and I need access to this article. Any help accessing it would be appreciated! 3SiameseCats (talk) 18:36, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

@3SiameseCats I've emailed you a copy of the article. I'd be glad to further assist you if you need something else, like translations or more articles. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 16:53, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Awesome! Thanks, will reach out if needed. 3SiameseCats (talk) 18:33, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

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2025

2025 opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had). Today I had a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) - Thank you for improving article quality in January! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:14, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in February! - I point at a composer today, as the main page does. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:56, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in March! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:55, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in May. One of mine was Jadwiga Rappé. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:22, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in June! - I heard this music, yesterday, - streamed a day before at a different location. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:30, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

While you are of course invited to check out my recommendations any day, today offers unusually a great writer of novels, music with light and a place with exquisite food. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:21, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

Maritime incidents

The category is appropriate to both ship and incident articles. Please revert your reversion of my edit. Mjroots (talk) 17:56, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

Seems to be that way. Reverted. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:48, 7 July 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in July! - Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:59, 20 July 2025 (UTC)

On Bach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:42, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in August, with a story about a children's writer - check out video of book introduction ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:06, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in September! - Today is the birthday of the 16th Thomaskantor after Bach, remembered. --(forgot to sign)

My 100th biography to the Main page in 2025 is Siegmund Nimsgern. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:43, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

September 2025

Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to Jan Klenberg. When you were adding content to the page, you added duplicate arguments to a template which can cause issues with how the template is rendered. In the future, please use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find these errors as they will display in yellow at the top of the page. Thanks. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 09:43, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello! I just wanted to request that you archive your user talk page. While it may not be bothersome to you, many editors have slow connections, and having a very large talk page can hamper communication. If you need help, just check out the guide over at Help:Archiving a talk page. Thanks! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 09:43, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know, @Zackmann08. Spotted where I had the dup argument and I'll be more careful in the future. I've also archived the past two years. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 10:01, 23 September 2025 (UTC)

Translation Help (FIN-ENG)

Hi!

I would like to have this article translated from Finnish to English, but I have to translate it myself due to Wikipedia restrictions. Can you help?

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Lind%C3%A9n Rosaurus (talk) 06:24, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

I've replied at fi:Keskustelu käyttäjästä:Htm#Käännösapua / FI-ENG, the gist of it being that I've created Heidi Lindén so that you can add your translation. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 10:25, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Disambiguation needed for Department of Excise and Prohibition

Hi @Finnusertop, that (Jharkhand) part in the title is necessary for the page Department of Excise and Prohibition because several other states in India have departments with the same or similar name. Keeping the state name in parentheses helps avoid confusion and maintains consistency with similar pages like Department of Excise (Andhra Pradesh) and Department of Excise & Taxation, Haryana. Flashthomsom (talk) 14:08, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

@Flashthomsom there are a couple of ways to look at this, and depending on which we take, I could also be wrong here.

But to go straight to the point, a disambiguated title like Department of Excise and Prohibition (Jharkhand) should never exist without an undisambiguated one like Department of Excise and Prohibition also existing. We only require that the reader of Wikipedia knows the title of the topic they want to read about. They don't have to guess to insert the correct disambiguator.

When two or more pages like this exist, the question which way the redirect, or a possible hatnote, or even a disambiguation page, should go is another issue. I've moved the page back for now since you asked. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 14:15, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

thanks, can you review that ai tag is still necessary? Flashthomsom (talk) 16:59, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

I can not. You should talk to EatingCarBatteries, who added the tag. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 17:19, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in October! My latest: Roberta Alexander, - listen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:05, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for support in November! - On St. Cecilia's Day - patron saint of music - I remember a composition by Benjamin Britten, and have a woman on the main page who illustrated songs, with a sense of humour. My places take you to Milan, my first visit to La Scala, and music features our latest choral Abendlob, with English music. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:21, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in December! - Today's 1715 Advent Bach cantata translates to "Prepare the ways", - listen to quite stunning music if you haven't ;) - "places" take you to Copenhagen. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:50, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in January! - 20 January is the 100th birthday of David Tudor (see my story) and the 300th birthday of Bach's cantata Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen, BWV 13, if we go by date instead of occasion as he would have thought, so see my story for last Sunday, and celebrate ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:30, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in February! - My story today is again about Percy Grainger (FA by Brian Boulton), this time with a video that surprised me. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:35, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in March! - My improvements concerned a Finnish soprano and the composition of a Finnish composer. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:23, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

on Bach's birthday, a story about my joy --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:32, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in April! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:59, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Today's story is about one of three bios I brought to today's main page: look and listen, an extraordinary woman in many respects. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:37, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

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Dear Finnusertop, as you are well aware we do not add an image of people on the infobox for large ethnic groups articles. Almost all the ones that I have seen such as Danes, Polish people, English people, Japanese people, Sindhis, Italians, Pashtuns, Arabs, Albanians, Punjabis etc. none of them have images of those people, rather their distribution is shown on a map. Why is there an exception being made for the Bengalis article? For a long time it was like that on this article as well where there was no image, but now a user recently added it. I think it is important we maintain consistency, please sort this mess out I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, Jaunpurzada (talk) 18:13, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

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Thank you for improving article quality in May! - Today: Felicity Lott. If you have little time, just give me a click ;) - If you have more, see her story. If you have more, listen to her singing Friendly Vision. If you have more, listen until she sings the word "peace" (Frieden), floating up high, serenely. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:32, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

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Hi!

Hi, FinnU! It's been a long time, but of course, I hope you've been well. I recall our earlier collaborations fondly. After a long Wikibreak, I'm back for a bit and working on an expansion of Sibelius Monument. Turns out, I was (somewhat surprisingly) able to piece together the record with online sources, although some gaps remain. It occurred to me that, perhaps, given your expertise, language skills, and newspaper access, you might like to assist a bit. If not, no worries! But below, I'll list some things that I think you might, if amenable, be able to help me with:

1. Most immediately, the article contains several quotations from interviews of Eila Hiltunen's children and welding assistant, which Pia Parkkinen did for yle in 2017. In footnotes, I have placed the original Finnish quotes. But I did have to rely on Google Gemini to do the translations. I thought you might want to check for accuracy.
2. Because the realization of the monument took place between 1959 (when the competition was announced) and 1967 (when the realized monument was unveiled), I am unable to get at newspaper records through the free digital archives. I recall that you have a subscription to Helsingin Sanomat, and thus, might be able to find archival info on the any of the following:
   1. Reviews / reports of the unveiling ceremony on 7 September 1967 (including, perhaps, of the evening concert conducted by Panula)
   2. The original Sibelius Society of Finland competition announcement, which I believe was in 1959
   3. One of the glaring gaps is I haven't been able to find out who were the jury members for the competition first round
   4. Another is that a source I found says the second round had 12 jury members, but only listed the names of 7 of them. Would be nice to know the other 5!
   5. In the first round, my understanding is that of the 50 submissions, 8 were given the highest category, and 6 of these (Toivo Jaatinen, Harry Kivijärvi, Martti Peitso, Kauko Räsänen, Ben Renvall, and Hiltunen) were invited into the second round. It would be nice to:
      1. Know who the missing other 2 names are
      2. The exact order of placement. I know that Jaatinen, Kivijärvi, and Peitso were named the top 3, and that Hiltunen was in 6th place. The original ENG Wikipedia entry, as well as the current entry of FIN Wikipedia, say that Jaatinen took first and, because he was subsequently unable to realize his design, a second round was needed. But, no sources I have consulted say this. So there is some confusion on this point, i.e., why the unplanned second round was needed. At present, I have written the article to say that it was needed because the jury couldn't come to an agreement.
      3. Any info about the other 5 designs would be very very welcome! Especially given the fault line that emerged between figurative and abstract approaches. But I have been unable to find anything (not even images!) on the other 5 submissions, other than some vague references translated in Grimley (2011).

Thanks again for your time, and do be well! Warmly, ~ Silence of Järvenpää 16:26, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Hey! Quick update:

• This book could be VERY helpful. Can you perhaps get it?
• This book, too, obviously! :)
• I found this about Jaatinen

~ Silence of Järvenpää 20:23, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Dear @Silence of Järvenpää! I'll be happy to help you with this. The translations are good, though I'd perhaps say something to the effect of "with some old man just standing there, with a sheet-music book in his hand"; the verb pönöttää means standing awkwardly with no apparent purpose except for maybe posturing one's own importance. As for the materials, the first one appears to be a 7-page handout that I gather can only be accessed at the National Library. The second one is an actual book, and if you don't have access to it, I can buy it for myself as it is very affordable secondhand. I'll have to dive into the materials you provided and Helsingin Sanomat archives soon to see just how many of your questions can be answered. Yours – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 20:37, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you so much, FinnU, for your generosity and can-do spirit!! Being in the U.S., I think it will be nearly impossible for me to buy the 1998 book myself, although I do wish I could have a copy in my library! So, if you wouldn't mind purchasing it yourself, that would be welcome ... but only if it's not a financial stressor. I hadn't realized the first source was just 7-pages ... perhaps that content about the other artists is mentioned in the 1998 book? But if not, then the pamphlet might be our best bet (unless the HS archives prove useful). I am reluctant to send you off into the bowels of the National Library, as it sounds inconvenient ... but maybe it's an adventure, instead? :) Finally, thanks for that suggested tweak to the one translation; I've changed it accordingly. (PS: If you find yourself interested in reading the full article, you might also consider a reassessment on the WikiProject Finland quality scale ... feels weird to update it myself from 'Start' class to _______, given my 95%+ authorship.) Warmly, ~ Silence of Järvenpää 21:06, 16 July 2026 (UTC)

I've sent you a translation etc. by email. Oh and I'll see about the rating when I've read the entire article. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 20:51, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Yes! Thank you, my friend, for the translation. Such rich detail! (I think the reason it's 13 jury members listed is because Aulis Blomstedt resigned between rounds in protest of Hiltunen's mistreatment? I think I read that in Limnell 2018). I've spammed you with several email replies ... sorry for the build up! And someone else bumped the rating to B-class, so no worries on that. Also, I took the plunge this morning: Sibelius Monument is now GAN ... whoop! Still can't wait for that 1998 book to arrive; it will be the icing on the cake en route to a possible FAN! Thanks again, ~ Silence of Järvenpää 13:46, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

@Silence of Järvenpää I've indeed got the book and read it. I've sent you an email. – Finnusertop (talk ⋅ contribs) 15:53, 28 July 2026 (UTC)

A new decoration is in order! The Wikithanks Ribbon, awarded to our intrepid Finnusertop, for their behind-the-scenes assistance with improving Sibelius Monument; the sources you tracked down proved beyond essential, and I couldn't have made the article what it is today without you.

THANKS! 〔 Silence of Järvenpää 〕 02:24, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

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